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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Exposition
Aphorism
Rhyme
Trochee
2. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Symbol
Subject
Octave
Epigram
3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Apostrophe
Conflict
Free Verse
Scenes
4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Setting
Metaphor
Sestet
5. A three-line stanza.
Dactyl
Parallelism
3rd Person (Limited)
Tercet
6. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Caesura
Myth
Folklore
Tercet
7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
1st Person
Character
Characterization
Pyrrhic
8. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Blank Verse
Act
Lyric Poem
Syntax
9. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Dialect
Point of View
Allegory
Aphorism
10. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Dialogue
Point of View
Fiction
Couplet
11. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Rising Action
Apostrophe
Spondee
Imagery
12. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Myth
Understatement
Parable
Act
13. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Blank Verse
Anapest
Voice
Reversal
14. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Couplet
Aside
Simile
15. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Rising Action
Recognition
Meter
Structure
16. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Author's Purpose
Rising Action
Sestina
Rhyme
17. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Flashback
Sestet
Epiphany
Narrative Poem
18. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Style
External Conflict
Myth
Foot
19. A character struggles against some outside force.
Metonymy
Denouement
Cliche
External Conflict
20. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Epic
Metonymy
Epigram
Subject
21. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Satire
Setting
Iamb
Denouement
22. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Onomatopoeia
Conceit
Subplot
Trochee
23. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Dramatic Irony
Author's Purpose
Denotation
24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Motif
Hyperbole
Aubade
Denouement
25. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
Character
Repetition
Conceit
26. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Convention
Subplot
Image
Sestet
27. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Irony
Pyrrhic
Plot
Legend
28. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Subject
3rd Person (Limited)
Hyperbole
29. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Alliteration
Internal Conflict
Point of View
Character
30. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Suspense
Aphorism
Dramatic Irony
Dactyl
31. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Couplet
Rhythm
Quatrain
Conceit
32. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Recognition
Persona
Stanza
Pyrrhic
33. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Quatrain
Tone
Structure
3rd Person (Limited)
34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Rhythm
Situational Irony
Closed Form
Free Verse
35. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Audience
Mood
Falling Action
Rhythm
36. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Climax
Persona
Blank Verse
Dialogue
37. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Protagonist
Character
Parody
38. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Antagonist
Lyric Poem
Analogy
Complication
39. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Irony
Elegy
Mood
Meter
40. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Spondee
Folklore
Rhythm
Stereotype
41. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Internal Conflict
Connotation
Foil
Oxymoron
42. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Epiphany
Act
Repetition
Plot
43. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Catharsis
Characterization
Aubade
Trochee
44. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Plot
Oxymoron
Audience
Catharsis
45. A four line stanza in a poem.
Symbolism
Epiphany
Quatrain
Theme
46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Trochee
Closed Form
Point of View
Stanza
47. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Catharsis
Solioquy
Foot
Folklore
48. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Understatement
Irony
Exposition
Parody
49. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Fiction
Stereotype
Dactyl
Oxymoron
50. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Ode
Assonance
Subplot
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